Andrew VertsonIs Arthritis Limiting your Activity?
Arthritis is one of the most common causes of adult pain and disability in the United States. It is a symptom of more than 150 diseases, symptoms, and rheumatic conditions that includes osteoarthritis, gout, and fibromyalgia. Most patients overlook the early symptoms of arthritis assuming the pain is a result of over-use. Is Arthritis Limiting your Activity? Osteoarthritis, is the most common type of arthritis. It is associated with a wearing down of the cartilage in joints. Most commonly affecting the weight-bearing joints of the hips, knees, and spine. Typically, osteoarthritis usually does not affect other joints unless previous injury, excessive
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Jeff DaileyMassage Chairs Help You Recover from Injuries
Many people use massage as a form of treatment when caring for a soft tissue injury, such as a pulled muscle or a hamstring strain. Injuries less likely to be treated with massage are skeletal system injuries, like a fractured or broken bone. Even skeletal injuries do actually benefit from massage, but proper precaution and protocol must be applied if you are to improve (and not worsen) the injury. Massage Chairs Help You Recover from Injuries For any type of injury, it’s recommended that you wait at least 48 hours before engaging in any type of massage. Some physicians even recommend
Continue readingKnee Pain Men Don’t Tell Their Wives About
It’s one of the most common issues that most men aged 40 + will ever suffer from…That nagging knee pain… The kind that slows you down in life, frustrates you when you walk up and down the stairs, and even stops you from doing something as playing ball with your kids… Just last week I received an email from a patient of mine, I wanted to share with you the top 3 things to stop doing right now, that could be making your knee pain worse. Here is a snippet from an email: “I’m sick and tired of waking up
Continue reading6 Steps To Getting Back To Exercise After Injury
Someone called my clinic a few days ago and asked: “How long does it take to get back to exercise after an injury? 6 Steps To Getting Back To Exercise After Injury I hurt my ankle a month ago and want to know how long it will take me to get back to running. It’s frustrating not knowing if it’s safe to get back out for a run…” When something like ankle pain strikes or an injury hits you out of the blue, not being able to exercise like you used to and now knowing when it’s safe to exercise again
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Richard BitnerTips on Caregiving after at Hip Fracture
This year, over 300,000 U.S. seniors will be hospitalized with a hip fracture — a serious injury for any elderly person. While some seniors recover relatively quickly after a broken hip, for most seniors, hip fracture recovery is both difficult and dangerous. Tips on Caregiving after at Hip Fracture During hip fracture recovery, non-medical support from senior care providers and family caregivers can make a huge difference. During the recovery period, seniors are unable to perform many basic tasks and are at an elevated risk of a hospital readmission or mortality. Senior care — either by professional caregivers or family members
Continue readingPhysical Therapy & Fitness After 50
As we age, we progress through different stages: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and late adulthood. As we move into our “senior” years it more important to adopt a healthy lifestyle. As we age there are changes in all our body systems, including the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems. Some common conditions and illnesses include: osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, heart disease and diabetes. Physical Therapy & Fitness After 50 Improving overall health, and addressing risk factors, make it possible to maintain and enhance the quality of life as we age. Improving our eating habits and increasing physical activity will reduce or even prevent common diseases. Physical Therapy
Continue readingEnjoying Outdoor Activities without Back Pain
Outdoor activities are a healthy and enjoyable way to live an active lifestyle; when the weather is nice, the outdoors are hard to resist. Here in California we are lucky, even though summer is officially “over” the summer weather will continue for many more months! Enjoying Outdoor Activities without Back Pain A reduction in activity leads to a decrease in physical conditioning and as a result when the weather is nice, people tend to overestimate their physical abilities. Low back pain from gardening or aches in the shoulders, neck, and knee joints from cleaning the garage are quite common. When the
Continue reading7 Myths of Physical Therapy
Myth 1: I need a physician’s prescription to see a physical therapist. Fact: Seventy percent on consumers surveyed think they need a prescription to see a physical therapist but the fact is ALL 50 states allow a patient to be evaluated by a physical therapist without a prescription. In California, physical therapists can evaluate, and treat you for 45 days (or 12 visits, whichever is first), without the need for a prescription. If your physical therapist feels you need to see a physician they will refer you to see one. 7 Myths of Physical Therapy Myth 2: Physical Therapy is painful! Fact: Seventy One percent
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